Gary Anderson

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Family Guy / English Teacher / Professional Development / Cybils Awards Board of Directors/ IG: @andersonglit http://WhatsNotWrong.wordpress.com

Weather Channel screen shot showing mostly below-zero Chicago temperatures on Tuesday, January 21, 2025.
Covers of two books mentioned in text of the post.
Book cover of The Braindead Megaphone: Essays by George Saunders
Book cover: The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins
Book cover: Movie tie-in edition of Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
Book cover: Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s by Dave Marsh
Book cover: Reading Ladders by Teri S. Lesesne
Cover of earlier paperback edition of Anne Lamont’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Book cover: Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School by Tiffany Jewell
Book cover: The Hemingses of Monticello by Annette Gordon Reed
Book cover: later paperback edition of The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
Book cover of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Image of Hilary Hahn’s Eclipse album streaming from Spotify on an Amazon Echo.
Book cover: The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
Book cover: A New Path to the Waterfall by Raymond Carver
Book cover: All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
Cover of original edition of The Iowa Baseball Confederacy by W. P. Kinsella
Book cover: Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump by David Bottoms
Cover of vintage paperback edition of Robert Kennedy and his times by Arthur M. Schlesinger
Cover of vintage Scholastic paperback movie tie-in edition of Old Yeller by Fred Gibson
Cover of book See You at Harry’s by Jo Knowles
Book cover image of The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child by Donalyn Miller
Cover of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This rather tattered paperback was my teaching copy for many years.
Nikki Giovanni and I having a conversation in the Writers Week hospitality room at Fremd High School (Palatine, Illinois) in 2000.